Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-06-04
A ROMANCE OF SLAVERY DAYS.


IA Rich KentuckIan.
1.-The story which, with your permis-
sion. am going to relate. had real
men and women for actors, and is
known to all the old-time residents in
and around Louisville. 1t presents one
of the most remarkable complications
of old slavery times that ever came
within my knowledge. and l am not
overyoung.
Fifteen or twenty years before the
breaking out of our late civil war, Il
young girl i'll her teens came up from
Louisiana and settled in Louisville Civ
ing the name of Lizzie Carlton. Moth
ing more was known of her than that
she was accompanied by young man
who was, or who pretended to be, deaf
and dumb. and who, after aid ny her
to secure Il sitult Oh with Mrs. WI
liams, II millner and dressmakcr on
Fourth street, returned at once south
ward by river. Lizzie was Il handsome
brunette. with II wealth of raven hair
which almost swept the floor, bright
expressive eyes, aud altogether genteel
and dgnitied in her general appear
ance. Her ladvlke department and
strict attention to the interests of her
employer soon made her super ntcnd
cnt OF the establishment. Social bar
ricrs We're not SO stubborn then us now,
and hence the Young and beautiful
stranger was soon received into the
best society, forming n number of
friends outside her regular business
patrons, among others Il Mrs. T., a
prominent member of the Baptist
church, ut whose house the dark-eyed
time attached herself To that church.
bacon, M, mos nvnnnl,rv p,amhar
During her visits to Mr. +. our hero
inc met Mr.. Philiu $. himself one of
the pillars of ,ht church. who. after
livinic in sino.lc- hIrss,,Jn,...s for. wears
ouiovjng iii ,lnnn bis ,va,Ith and fam
ilv station soon rerr vpd !. tender spr-
tinent for ,hr younr and h.auliful Sis
ter II wa, not lonn .fter the match
makers mt thnir heads tore,bor ill
Pbilin and ,iygi. ,vora mod. n,e The
marriooe ceremony tool, nl,rn at ,l,e
Rnntist church lion st,nLino on Tho
corner of Fifth aud Gr,ru Rev Mr.
Back offic ating. and many oldtimers
livny to iii. ro,l d.,y vim recall all
the facts oy,c,Iy,s ,r ~. tlo,u After
tbe ceremony lie hrItl. .,,d room and
thei,. frinnJs rsn,fr.d tn Ar. So rest
tfpucp about ton milns from, | ,puisyI1lp
nm tho R,rd.tnyn arnrI,.usn.l
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tbat J,,yncJ h .fnra him. the vouno
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in The strnnnle far bread
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